Cameron Lam celebrates five years of curating the Australian Art Music playlist featuring music across Classical, Jazz and Sound Art.

Cameron Lam celebrates a kaleidoscope of colours across Classical, Jazz and Sound Art in this month’s Australian Art Music playlist.

In Currency House's New Platform Paper series, First Nations philosopher Tyson Yunkaporta examines how different concepts of arts, culture and economics have informed the history of relations between Aboriginal and colonial Australia. Read an extract here.

Ensemble Offspring's micro-festival Listen Up! features the Australian Art Orchestra, Allara and Eric Avery in a program of electrifying new music by living composers.

As she was about to perform in Lorraine Hansberry's landmark play A Raisin in the Sun, the American actor discovered a program from the 1959 Broadway production in a box of her father's things.

Tania de Jong discusses the creation of the new musical based on the lives of her grandparents, Austrian/Australian sculptor Karl Duldig and his artist/inventor wife Slawa Horowitz-Duldig.

As Currency Press turns 50 today, we talk to Nick Parsons and Wesley Enoch about the important role the publishing house has played in preserving the work of local playwrights, and changing the perception of Australia as a literary nation.

What can a grand old European city tell us about life in Australia today? Roland Peelman chats with Julian Day about how new music and First Nations musicians play an essential role in this year’s Vienna-themed Canberra International Music Festival.

As Wesley Enoch prepares his fifth and final Sydney Festival, we look at the successes and controversies of his artistic directorship, and whether the self-acknowledged risk-taker might follow his sister into politics.

While live performance is returning, travel restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic mean virtually no international artists will tour here. Will we seize the chance to create a greater space for Indigenous, female and ethnically diverse voices to speak to us about Australia today?

From flygskam to hazardous air quality, the changing climate is increasingly having an impact on classical music and the arts. Angus McPherson considers how artists and organisations are rising to meet these challenges, and asks what role the arts can play in the face of a climate crisis.

Collaborations between Indigenous musicians and composers with Western classical orchestras, ensembles and musicians are beginning to grow. Steve Dow talks to some of the artists participating in the cultural exchange about the challenges involved, the protocols that need to be respected, and the exciting new Australian sounds that are emerging.